Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
— Albert Einstein
Most Powerful Street Wisdom quotations
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!
The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!
We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets
The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country.
The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road;
or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope.
That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.
In a state-run society the government promises you security.
But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.